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The electric storm is commonly known as thunder.
In an electrical storm, the storm clouds are charged like giant capacitors in the sky. The upper portion of the cloud is positive and the lower portion is negative. How the cloud acquires this charge is still not agreed upon within the scientific community. However, it could be explained as follows:
When there is a charge separation in a cloud, there is also an electric field that is associated with the separation. Like the cloud, this field is negative in the lower region and positive in the upper region. The strength or intensity of the electric field is directly related to the amount of charge buildup in the cloud. As the collisions and freezing continue to occur and the charges at the top and bottom of the cloud increase, the electric field becomes more and more intense. it is so intense, in fact, that the electrons at the earth's surface are repelled deeper into the earth by the strong negative charge at the lower portion of the cloud. This repulsion of electrons causes the earth's surface to acquire a strong positive charge. The strong electric field, being somewhat self-sufficient creates a conductive path for the negative cloud bottom to contact the positive earth surface.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoAn electrical storm is a naturally occurring weather phenomenon where a cloud is electrically charged with positive and negative ions. These two ions clash and the resulting friction creates thunder and lightning.
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∙ 16y agoThunder storms. Interestingly, thunder is named after the Norse god "Thor".
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electrical parts of the world? :*
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An electrical charge in motion called?
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